Cameron Laird's personal notes on SVG

This page is mostly about my interests in standardized Scalable
Vector Graphics. I invite those looking for a "What is SVG?"
treatment to start with the pertinent
Wikipedia page. What it lacks in
working code it compensates for with a plethora of references.
Roughly comparable: introductory pages from
Adobe and the
w3schools.

The only active public Wiki I know for SVG is the
Interest Group one. I'm an "Invited Expert" to the Group.

Is SVG part of HTML5, or distinct from it? 'Depends--on whether
you're focused on standards, browsers, marketing, personalities, ...
In any case, most folks working in one area will want to keep
track of the other.

Questions often arise about how to communicate between embedded SVG
instances; in particular, how can one programmatically re-use the
visual elements of an SVG design, but update their behavior? That's
a principal subject of the "Create
client-side ..." article above. A wider range of communication
techniques appears in
this highly-simplified model.
David Dailey writes about the subject more generally
in his Primer.

David Dailey has an impressive collection of animations
that he uses as background for presentations. It's a tour-de-force
of SVG effects. With its dependence on animation, it effectively
works entirely only under Opera, as of Spring 2010; Chrome and
Safari show
most of it, though, Firefox 4.0 Beta looks good in July 2010,
and all the browsers are improving rapidly ... Dr. Dailey also
has other illustrative animations

Also note that "SVG Web supports the currentTranslate and currentScale
attributes on the SVG root tag. These can make it much easier
to do scripted zooming and panning of the entire SVG image."
[who wrote this originally?]

SVG-WOW! is
a great contribution
by Erik Dahlstrom and Vincent Hardy. Along with much else, it
includes demonstrations shown previously at the SVG Open 2009
conference.

bruce rindahl prepared in 2005
real-time tracking of thunderstorms.
All the code is present in the download from the presentation--but
largely slanted to Adobe-in-IE, rather than more modern technologies
available in, for example, Opera.